WHILE the results for the seats of Hasluck, Pearce, Swan, Durack and Cowan are known the result in Bullwinkel is still playing out.

As Echo News monitored the results for Bullwinkel, there was a back-and-forth between Labor’s Trish Cook and Liberals candidate Matt Moran.

On Wednesday afternoon the ABC reported  Ms Cook was in the lead by 95 votes.

According to the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) a full recount of all formal and informal ballot papers occurs if the margin of votes between the first and second ranked candidates at the completion of the distribution of preferences is less than 100 votes.

On September 5, last year Antony Green’s election blog on the 2024 Federal redistribution – final boundaries for Western Australia released said the new seat of Bullwinkel was a notional Labor seat using the unusually good Labor results at the 2022 federal election.

“At a more normal election, and without a sitting member, Bullwinkel will be a very difficult seat for Labor to notionally retain,’’ he said.

The Thursday morning following the Saturday, May 3 election the winner of the new seat was still undecided as Shire of Mundaring councillor and Labor candidate for Bullwinkel  Trish Cook lead with 175 votes.

In his blog Mr Green said the creation of Bullwinkel resulted in a significant strengthening of Labor’s position in Hasluck, the Labor margin increasing from 6 per cent to 10 per cent.

On Thursday, May 8 with 77.3 per cent of the vote counted incumbent MHR Tania Lawrence had secured the seat – according to the ABC’s Australian Federal Election 2025 Live results – with a lead of 28,513 votes indicating a swing of 6.9 per cent to the ALP.

In Swan incumbent MHR Zaneta Mascarenhas was leading by 23,918 votes – a swing to the ALP of 4.9 per cent – securing a second term (the electorate of Swan includes portions of the South Guildford and High Wycombe suburbs).

In the safe seat of Pearce, Tracey Roberts secured a second term for Labor and led by more than 11,814 votes, according to the ABC Pearce Federal Election 2025 results (the electorate of Pearce includes Melaleuca and portions of the suburb of Lexia).

In Durack, the ABC reported Liberal candidate Melissa Price who has held the seat since 2013, was again in the lead (Durack includes the suburb of Bullsbrook, the Walyunga National Park, and the northern and central parts of the Wheatbelt region).

The ABC predicts Labor will secure a fourth term in the Cowan electorate as Anne Aly leads against Liberal candidate Felicia Adeniyi by 23,693 votes (Cowan includes the suburbs of Malaga, Ballajura and Cullacabardee).